General Assembly resolution 47/62, adopted late in 1992, which requested the Secretary-General to invite Member States to submit written comments on a possible review of the membership of the Security Council, clearly indicated the vital importance of this agenda item, not only for the Council itsel…
May I first congratulate you, Sir, on your election to preside over our work.
I wish you every success in your presidency, and assure you that you may rely on the full cooperation of the delegation of Chile.
I wish also to greet the Secretary-General and to assure him once again of our support in …
The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea represents one of the most important milestones in the history of the United Nations and is a concrete reflection of what this Organization can do to
The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and the Convention itse…
May I begin by expressing the great emotion and satisfaction I feel in taking part in this event in the General Assembly Hall, the political home of the United Nations. What a great joy it is for the international community to welcome in this supreme forum a united, democratic and non-racial South A…
Today the General Assembly begins its consideration of the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council. We all know that this question is crucial for the future of the United Nations. It is not a matter of merely discussing the practical aspects of …
The report of the Secretary-General on the item before us today, "The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development" (A/48/586), points out in paragraph 2 that, for a decade …
Allow me, first of all, to express the deep satisfaction of the Government of Chile at the decision taken by the General Assembly to devote four plenary meetings to reviewing the current state of international cooperation in combating the production, consumption and illicit trafficking of drugs.
Th…
As Members of the world Organization know, the University for Peace, whose headquarters is in Costa Rica - a country which has close and friendly relations with Chile and which, in respect of this concept, sets an example to many other countries - is an international institution devoted to the searc…
Six days ago, in Santiago, Chile, during the seventh summit meeting of the Rio Group, which was attended by the Heads of State and Government of the Latin American and Caribbean countries of which that political concertation mechanism is composed, approved a declaration that reads as follows:
"The …
I am particularly pleased to congratulate Ambassador Insanally on his election to the presidency of
It has been our lot to witness and to be a part of events of far-reaching significance in the history of mankind. The political, technological, economic and social changes that have shaken the world …
When we spoke
in the Assembly last year on the policy of apartheid of the Government of
South Africa, an agenda item of vital importance to the international
community, my delegation said that it was hopeful, as a result of certain
positive signs which were then beginning to emerge and which poi…
I should like
first to express the Chilean delegation's satisfaction that the agenda of the
important item of cooperation between the United Nations system and regional
bodies. This morning we shall consider United Nations cooperation with the
Organization of American States (OAS), the Latin Ame…
In our
times, a unique advance has been made in the search for peace, understanding
and cooperation among peoples. Mankind is progressively becoming more and
more aware of this new reality.
Accordingly, the present juncture is an appropriate one for reflection
and dialogue within the framework …
The problem of
shelter, seen from an overall perspective, i s a fundamental right which the whole
world i s striving to achieve. The fact that we are speaking today i n this Assembly
i s additional evidence of the enormous importance the international ccxmnunity
attaches to providing a roof over…
I am indeed gratified to have the opportunity to offer my very cordial greetings to the President of this thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly, the Vice President of Panama, Mr. Jorge Illueca, long identified with this Organization, and through him to the people of his country, linked to mi…
The International Conference in Support of the Struggle of the Namibian People for Independence was held in Paris from 25 to 29 April 1983. Subsequently, in May, the Security Council agreed to devote a series of meetings to the question of Namibia and adopted resolution 532 (1983), in which, interal…
During the vote at the last session on the draft resolution on this subject, the delegation of Chile said [56th meeting] that there could be no inter- national peace and security if nations did not strictly refrain from the use offorce in their bilateral relations. We also said that we would be seri…
The delegation of Chile will vote in favour of all the draft resolutions pertaining to the question of Namibia with .the exception of draft resolution A, which we cannot support because it contains certain paragraphs which in both form and substance depart, in our judgement, from the line of moderat…
The delegation ofChile supports the recommenda- tkm of the General Committee. In our opinion we should not include in the agenda of the present session the item on the question of Puerto Rico, for the following reasons.
63. Finally, the delegation of Chile believes that the people of Puerto Rico wi…
The delegation of Chile voted for both draft resolu- tions.
343. Our positive vote on draft resolution A/36iL.60 and Add. I reflects my Government's concern at the Israeli action with regard to ~he Syrian Golan Heights. Chile's position on this, which is well known. is that one of the essentiai fac…
